Baffled by Airport

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I hope you are using WEP encryption and that you just didn't put that in the key
field. If you have encryption enabled on the Airport then it won't associate
without the encryption key.

Quoting "Francis X. Maier" <franx@qwest.net>:

> I'm running YDL 3.01 on an iMac with an Airport (802.11b) card.  The
> card appears as configured and active, but I can't make an internet
> connection.
>
> Background:  I lease eight static IPs from Qwest.  Five are usable by
> me.  Three are required by the system -- including the IP my Actiontech
> router uses (168.103.XX.6).
>
> I assign 168.103.XX.1 to my Airport Extreme base station, which then
> operates as the gateway for my other computers.
>
> The Xbox and the two Macs on my wireless LAN system work great,
> manually configured with the base station as their gateway.
>
> My Linux box is the problem.  Here's my current
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file:
>
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=static
> BROADCAST=168.103.XX.7
> IPADDR=168.103.XX.5
> NETMASK=255.255.255.248
> NETWORK=168.103.XX.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> CHANNEL=1
> TYPE=Wireless
> MODE=Auto
> KEY=
> RATE=Auto
> GATEWAY=168.103.XX.1
> ESSID=dannyman1
>
> Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
>
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